The Bandits can now boast to being the best senior team in the state, after beating The MOB and CJ&S two times each in the annual Tom Tobin Memorial held in Prescott May 17th and 18th.
After an easy win over Rusty's to open the days competition on Saturday morning, The Bandits held on to nip the Arizona MOB 20-19 in a nail biter. They then easily whipped CJ&S 26-19 to close out the day and earning the number one seed.
Sunday morning The Bandits watched CJ&S upset the heavily favored MOB in the first game of the double elimination. That meant The Bandits would face The Express at 9:15 a.m. The Bandits started quickly, building a lead, but could not hold it. CJ's, fought back and actually tied the score in the top of the 7th inning. Cutting down the lead run at the plate shifted Mr. Momentum back to The Bandits. Tied in the bottom of the 7th, Dave Clark reached on a single up the middle. With one out, Dave Niles dashed CJ's hopes of another upset with a walk off home run!
The Bandits then waited to see who they would play for the championship as The MOB and The Express went at it again. The stunning loss to us must have taken the wind out of CJ's sail. They were run ruled by the MOB.
This set up a rematch and you can bet The MOB was set for revenge. They jumped to an early lead, homering often. But most of the home runs were solo shots and it came back to haunt them. This time it was the Bandits who came from behind, scoring 5 in the bottom of the 6th to take a 3 run lead. In the 7th, The MOB went down one, two, three and The Bandits won 24-21 to take their fourth tournament in a row!
If All-Tournies were selected the following players would have made it............
Mark Reagin .810
Denny Bailey .778
Keith Wilson .778
Paul Rosthenhausler .765
Mike Swank .739
Dave Niles .708
We hit .689 as a team, our best effort yet! Rock 'N Reno is up next, our first true test as a Major team.
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